Hulk Hogan in Lagos!

American professional wrestler, actor, television personality, entrepreneur, and musician, Terry Gene Bollea, populary known as Hulk Hogan, was spotted in Lagos Island this afternoon, as he and some other popular American Wrestlers embarked on a "Wrestling for Global Peace and Unity".

The publicity attracted many traders and shoppers, as they all thronged around the truck to get a closer look at the wrestlers.

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Gennie Rocks in Fitted Blue Denim!

Our very own Genevieve Nnaji is obviously having fun, as she shared this photo where she rocked a fitted blue denim....



Go Girl.....

Woman beheaded in North London!

A woman was reportedly found beheaded by a man witnesses says wielded a machete in a back garden on Nighttingale road in Edmonton- North London.



Confirming this incident, Scotland Yard said the suspect, a 25 year-old man has been taken into custody, they however say there is no suggestion the killing had any terrorist motives. 

The Metropolitan Police said a Fire Arm officer sustained a broken wrist from the suspect during the course of the arrest.

Estranged ex- French First Madame, Trierweiler Tells All!

Eght months after President François Hollande rode into the tabloids on the back of a bodyguard's scooter, the bedroom farce at the Elysée Palace is getting a provocative second act. 

Valerie Trierweiler, France’s erstwhile first lady, returns to the spotlight with a top-secret tell-all set to hit French bookstores en masse. 

Spoiler: she’s not happy. And her memoir’s timing couldn’t be worse for Hollande’s flailing presidency.

Flash back eight months, Paparazzi snap the 60 year-old French President, obscured under a motorcycle helmet, being dropped off in the night on a Piaggio three-wheeler at an apartment just steps from the Elysée Palace. The same bodyguard, apparently bearing croissants, returns to fetch the never-married philandering leader the next morning.

The escapade, splashed across seven pages in the tabloid weekly Closer on Jan. 10 as “The President’s Secret Love,” provided an ogling nation with headline gossip for weeks. The Presidential paramour was 42 year-old French film star Julie Gayet, confirming months of behind-the-scenes innuendo. 

Trierweiler, a journalist for the glossy weekly Paris Match, was hospitalized for a week, ostensibly under the strain of events.

On Jan. 25, in a succinct 18-word statement, Hollande, made the couple's split official. This week, Trierweiler,  matches that public affront with a statement of her own—in 320 unforgiving pages.

Paris Match devotes its cover and a 12-page spread Wednesday to Trierweiler’s Thank You for This Moment, including short, dramatic excerpts.

In one snippet, Trierweiler recounts the morning news broke of the president’s liaison. Paris Match calls it “the most horrible moment of her life.” Pursued by Hollande into the couple’s Elysée Palace bathroom, Trierweiler writes, she grabs a bagful of sleeping pills and runs into their bedroom. Hollande snatches at the bag. It rips. Pills spill across the bed and floor. “I swallow what I can,” she writes. “I want to sleep. I don’t want to live the hours to come.” Then, she says, she lost consciousness.

The shock memoir’s very existence was kept secret until Tuesday in an operation worthy of Edward Snowden. An independent Paris publishing house, Les Arènes, is said to have had a skeleton staff working on the project to thwart leaks. An exceptionally large first run of 200,000 copies was reportedly printed in Germany for the same reason. 

Le Monde reports Trierweiler drafted the manuscript “in the greatest secrecy over the course of six months, on a computer that she took care to not connect to a network.”

Even Trierweiler’s own children were kept in the dark, Olivier Royant, Trierweiler’s boss at Paris Match told French radio Wednesday. He likened the process to “a spy novel.” 

Trierweiler is pictured on the cover of her own magazine this week, under the headline “My Life with François.”

The excerpts published ahead of Thursday’s release suggest a melodramatic, navel-gazing romp. Trierweiler tells of the couple’s early “enchanted years,” the “electromagnetic field between us,” before their relationship is slowly ravaged by resentment.

Trierweiler lays out her crippling jealousy of Ségolène Royal, the mother of Hollande’s four children and a Socialist Party heavyweight in her own right. 

Hollande officially left Royal for Trierweiler in 2007, although their liaison began in 2005. Trierweiler recounts breaking down in tears, “devastated,” backstage at a 2012 presidential campaign event in Rennes, where Hollande broke a promise not to appear on stage with Royal and the crowd cheered wildly.

She tells of posting the fateful tweet that would precipitate the couple’s downfall after Hollande broke a new promise not to back Royal in June 2012 legislative elections. “I press the detonator and I am the only one responsible,” 

Trierweiler writes of the tweet, as excerpted Wednesday in Le Monde. “But the time-bomb was built by François Hollande and Ségolène Royal,” 

Trierweiler writes, painting the political pair as a House of Cards-style powerhouse constantly using one another for political gain. (Long left out of Hollande’s administration, Royal has served in his cabinet since April.)

The president grew cold, she writes. In an excerpt published by Le Monde, Trierweiler claims she “became a lightning rod for everything that happens. For every cabinet minister gaffe, for every factory closing, I felt the aftershock.” She says Hollande proposed marriage in September 2012, only to withdraw his proposal a month later. After their break-up, she expresses disappointment that Hollande’s interior and finance ministers don’t call her up in sympathy.

Since France’s first couple met its spectacularly public end, the president has become desperate to get back together, Trierweiler snipes, his desperation growing the more his approval ratings fell. She claims Hollande has bombarded her with text messages, as many as 29 a day.

“Does he believe what he writes?” she asks. “Or am I the last whim of a man who can’t stand to lose? He tells me he will win me back, as if I were an election.”

The book’s surprise release is in itself a setback for Hollande. Under fire politically from all quarters, the perilously unpopular Socialist president tried to stop the bleeding with a cabinet shuffle last week, further angering leftists who charge his government is shifting rightward. With unemployment at a record high and the economy stagnant, a new public jaunt through Hollande’s bedroom is yet another frivolous distraction.

Still, a generous reading—presuming there are any voters feeling generous about a president whose approval ratings have dipped into the teens—might dismiss many of Trierweiler’s sideswipes as commonplace sour grapes. 

Queried for comment on French television Wednesday, a Hollande ally, Socialist Speaker of the House Claude Bartolone, responded, “Do you know of any break-ups that go well? Everyone has their own suffering and their little story, but not everybody has the possibility of writing a book.”

But Trierweiler’s parting shot might do its most lasting damage with one devastating characterization of Hollande, questioning his Socialist chops.

Raised in rent-controlled social housing, Trierweiler was the fifth child of six. Her father was a war amputee on benefits; her mother a cashier at a skating rink. In Thank You For This Moment, she alleges Hollande mocked her modest roots and suggests that, privately, he ridicules the poor as unwashed masses. “He presented himself as the man who doesn’t like the rich. In reality, the president doesn’t like the poor,” she writes. “This man, the man of the left, says in private ‘the toothless,’ proud of his quip.”

If Trierweiler can make that evocative image stick, she’ll have done more damage to Hollande’s image in France than so many love-nest scooter rides.

In her new book, as she describes her relationship disintegrating within the confines of Elysée Palace, Trierweiler complains, “How many times did I have to ask [Hollande’s security] to give us a bit of space when we walked together?” But between that one devastating tweet and this poison pen, perhaps the bodyguard was on to something.

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Lagos State Govt Warns Public On Fake Ebola Test Kits!

The Lagos State Government on has raised alarm and alerted members of the public to beware of 

The Lagos state government has alerted members of the public to beware of an Ebola Test Kits being marketed in the state and described it as fake.

In a statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media to the governor, Mr. Hakeem Bello noted that the fake items which are branded as "Rapid Response Canada" with test results purportedly available in 10 minutes is a hoax.

According to the statement, there are no Ebola test kits manufactured anywhere as at the moment. He urged members of the public not to patronise the marketers of the product, saying the branded Ebola kits originated from a group of unscrupulous people who are after turning the Ebola challenge in the country into a money spinning venture.

Sherif Denies Alledged Boko-Haran Link!

Contrary to widely-reported claims by Stephen Davis that Ali Sheriff and former Army Chief Azubuike Ihejirika were major sponsors of the Boko Haran sect, the former Borno State governor yesterday debunked the allegations, saying he never had any dealings with the sect. 

Stating this at a news conference in Abuja, Sheriff said he was ready to face any investigation to prove his innocence, adding that the allegation was aimed at denigrating him.

Ali Sheriff at a press briefing

"Let me state categorically at this point that I do not share the ideology of the Boko Haram sect, which is against western education, western culture and modern science or any other sect with similar ideology," he said.

"From my background, it could be easily seen that we are completely opposed to one another in terms of our viewpoints and convictions. By my nature and upbringing, I have neither associated myself with nor shared the beliefs of religious fundamentalists such as the Boko Haram sect or any other sect for that matter."

Sheriff added that he was being accused of having terrorist links in Borno State and other parts of the country since the 2009, even when the sect had been around much earlier.

"It may not be necessary to bother you with the long history of the metamorphosis of Boko Haram as a sect, as several reports have published their genesis, spanning over twenty five years," he said.

"The incident preceding the 2009 was in Kanama of Yobe State in 2002, long before I became the Governor of Borno state. It is on record that my Administration in 2009 took exceptional bold steps in handling the Boko Haram insurgency."

The ex governor said that his defection from the All Progressives Congress to the PDP seemed to further galvanize his detractors to "convert the matter into a political weapon".

Inexplicable Fees Paid By Nigerian Students, Just How Much Is Too Much!

Call it extortion or inexplicable fees paid by Nigerian students either during exams, at the point of processing and securing admissions, or at the clearly unemployed state of serving our mother land. 

This short write up below brings these to fore:

 "The National Youth Service Corps call-up letters will now cost the prospective ‘corper’ N4,000, and this is after buying a scratch card to confirm his name as having been mobilised. 

This to my mind is a sign that the NYSC is broke and if that be the case, why force young people to go for the programme compulsorily?

To think that corps members are not insured despite the dangers they face every year, a corps member who sustains injury or even loses his life in the course of the year is not even given any insured compensation rather, officials of the NYSC only pay the family a condolence visit.

I hereby suggest that the said N4,000 be reversed and in fact, an insurance cover be put in place for corpers since they’re on national duty.

Other scratch card scams include checking of WAEC/NECO and JAMB results as well as the Post-UTME tests. One would have thought that having spent a fortune to buy those forms, their results will be part of the deal.

In such places as hospitals in Lagos, cars are parked at a fee irrespective of whether you came for a visit or you are a patient, while it is agreed that it helps to stem illegal parking, something ought to be done to ensure that patients park their vehicles free since the hospital services are not free anyway.

Let’s see how many other government official scams we can come up with and see what we can do to stop them where necessary".

Source: Punch news